65th Annual Golden Globe Winners

What a terribly boring and predictable list of winners. As I expected, Atonement took home the prize for Best Motion Picture, Drama, and it was Day-Lewis for the win for Best Actor, Drama (not that he didn't deserve it, mind you, but it wasn't much of a competition). Bardem for Best Supporting Psycho, Blanchett for Best Dylan, and a number of awards for Sweeney Todd. Schnabel for Best Director and Marion Cotillard for Best Actress, Musical or Comedy, are the only two (minor) surprises in my book. I thought the Coens might take Director, but No Country flopped out except for Best Screenplay. (It's consolation prize time!) Good on Schnabel, though - his wins here and at Cannes (and at whatever that awards show last week was) make me that much more interested in seeing Diving Bell. As far as Cotillard is concerned, I always have a problem with "Musical or Comedy" nominations that are essentially biopics about singers, which is what Walk the Line was, and seems to be what La Vie en Rose is as well. Walk the Line was NOT a musical, it was a drama with music in it. So what if actors are singing the songs themselves - it's an entirely different format than a true musical. I think it's somewhat silly to put a role like Edith Piaf up against Ellen Page as Juno or Amy Adams as a fairy princess, but divide it from Julie Christie in Away From Her. If you're going to make up silly categories for "best" this and that, at least have some sense of consistency. Draw the line at an understandable location, or throw everyone into the same pool. It's how I feel about Best Foreign Language Whatever, and why should that be any different from acting awards? Best is best, no matter if it's in French or if it's making vicar pies.